WASHINGTON The U.S. congressional panel investigating the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, said it wants to interview former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other Obama administration officials.
Among 20 current or former officials the...

A special House committee looking into the deadly Benghazi, Libya, attacks in 2012 will interview a host of current and former high-ranking Obama administration officials as it speeds the pace of the investigation.
The panel's chairman, Rep. Trey Gowdy,...

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There is more media than ever covering American political life. And with each major election, the coverage seems to get worse – or, at least, more confused and misguided.
That is certainly the story of national media performance in Tuesday’s wild midterm elections anyway.
I can’t wait to hear all the political insiders who worship at the altar of Nate Silver explain how he could have been so wrong about Maryland’s gubernatorial race.
On Monday, Silver said on his...

In news that must have left my friends at the New York Post -- never mind the gang at "The Daily Show" -- with a renewed confidence that ours is a just and beneficent God, the White House has been caught covering up a scandal involving a Cartagena hooker.
The phrase "Cartagena hooker" alone is a mellifluous gift to ink-stained wretches everywhere, but the revelation that the White House reassigned the alleged client of the aforementioned Andean call girl to the State Department's office of "Global...

In news that must have left my friends at the New York Post -- never mind the gang at "The Daily Show" -- with a renewed confidence that ours is a just and beneficent God, the White House has been caught covering up a scandal involving a Cartagena hooker.
The phrase "Cartagena hooker" alone is a mellifluous gift to ink-stained wretches everywhere, but the revelation that the White House reassigned the alleged client of the aforementioned Andean call girl to the State Department's office of "Global Women'...

President Barack Obama might have his difficulties with foreign policy, terrorists, the economy, Vladimir Putin, his own bumbling Secret Service and those vanished IRS emails.
But this week he's coming back to Illinois for a big political fundraiser for Gov. Pat Quinn.
And once back in the land of political reform and transparency, he might just go on a bro-hug spree.
He's been quite the hugger lately. His infamous grasp of Jay Carney, the departed press secretary, was so painful that BuzzFeed...

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He watched President Barack Obama decide to drop bombs on Syria, a policy McCain has long endorsed. He saw the non-interventionist wing of his party suddenly revise its views when it came under pressure from Middle East reality. He played polar bear to ex-White House flack Jay Carney's baby seal on CNN.
When I met with McCain in his...

Former White House press secretary Jay Carney will join CNN as a political commentator, the network announced Wednesday.
Carney will make his first appearance on CNN on Wednesday night in conjunction with President Obama's prime time address outlining his strategy to push back on the Islamic State. Going forward, Carney is expected to contribute to programs across the network and to special political programming.
"I'm thrilled to be joining CNN at a time when there is so much happening in the...